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Posted: 12/6/2001 7:31:08 AM EDT

Anyone have any recommendations on good books about military rifles?

Posted: 12/6/2001 7:35:11 AM EDT

[#1]

Scot Duff, author of good books, check Amazon.com.
Jeff Cooper also.

Mike

Posted: 12/6/2001 7:41:15 AM EDT

[#2]

You might like JANE'S Guns Recognition guide it features all the military rifles, pistols, revolvers, machineguns, and sub-machineguns in action today, sure you can find it at amazon, etc.
-roger

Posted: 12/6/2001 7:41:25 AM EDT

[#3]

look at www.tapco.com's books section, sometimes they have some good reads

Posted: 12/6/2001 7:45:50 AM EDT

[#4]

sorry, should have checked, amazon does not have it but the publisher does for 22.50 (512 pages)

http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0004724534

Posted: 12/6/2001 10:41:04 PM EDT

[#5]

W.H.B. Smith’s “Book of Rifles" and “Small Arms of the World” are classics. Don’t know if they’re still in print.

Posted: 12/7/2001 3:45:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Ordnance Went up Front, (?). Very Good overveiw of WW2 and previous small arms from a user's veiwpoint. This is an excellent starting point.

Anything by Brophy. Limited to US small arms (Springfield, Krag, Marlin)

Anything by Collector Grade Publications for what ever turns you on.

The parts catalogs put out by Numrich Arms, Gun Parts, and that huge 2 volume set put out by ?.

Cruise the Used book stores on the net as well - I use Abebooks.com, and often find good books cheap.

Posted: 12/18/2001 5:22:42 PM EDT

[#7]

Depending on how deep you wish to delve into minutiae, I would recommend:

The complete guide to the M1 Garand & M1 Carbine----- Bruce N. Canfield

The complete guide to the M-14 rifle-----
again by Canfield

Really interesting stuff about the developement of the sniping program in SE Asia, and some col M-14 info bits:

The long range war, sniping in Viet Nam-----
Peter R. Senich

For some cool info about what happened to all of those Garands:

The M1 Garand-Post WW2--- Scott A. Duff

Everything that you ever wanted to know about maintaining, repairing, or modifying a Garand or 14:

The US .30 caliber gas operated service rifles
By Jerry Kuhnhausen

Chuck

Posted: 12/19/2001 7:39:24 PM EDT

[#8]

Testing the Weapons of War by Timothy J. Mullins
Rifles of the World
Small Arms of the World by W.H.B. Smith

Posted: 12/22/2001 9:14:00 AM EDT

[#9]

Small Arms of the World (12 edition out of print but excellent)
The AK47 story
The Black Rifle
US Rifle M14
by Edward Clinton Ezell & Blake stevens.

[url]http://www.collectorgrade.com/store.html[/url]

Scott Duff books are good also
[url]http://www.scott-duff.com/Books.htm[/url]

Posted: 12/22/2001 5:35:40 PM EDT

[#10]

If you could find it - and afford it - Sharpe's
"The Rifle in America," would top my list. Long
out of print, I used to have it, and I wish I
still did. John

Posted: 12/31/2001 8:06:34 AM EDT

[#11]

Military Small Arms of the 20th Century
BY Ivan Hoggs & John Weeks
Picked this up at a Books-a-million couple months ago. very good.

Posted: 1/1/2002 3:16:56 PM EDT

[#12]

For a US GI's detailed overview of just about every small arm used in all theaters of WW II get: Ordnance Went Up Front, by Roy F. Dunlap, Jr., R&R Books
[url]http://www.gunshowbooks.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_prod.html?p_prodid=GS155514&sid=2Qs3iK7OB[/url]

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